Intel Q9450 vs Phenom 9850 - ATI HD3870 X2

[Hornet331]

Because as you guys have thought me, that video card will bottleneck the cpu fast. It isn't possible to produce sky high frames with that card.
If you buy a very fast video card and also buys a very fast processor that will not bottleneck the video card. You will get insane frame rates and that will draw much more power but all those frames can't be noticed by the user.

sry if i pull mod anger at me with that post, but seriously....

with that post you have made yourself look like a complet moron, more fps doesn't mean the graphic cards consume more power... try running furmark (without driver gimping on ati cards) and then HL1, then report back and tell me what test consumed more power and the fps.

To betake it, furmark will produce a higher load on your gpu then HL1 and will give you lower fps then HL1.

The power consumption on a card doesn't depend on waht fps it shows, it depends on waht function units on the graphics card are utilized and how hard they are stressed.

Furmark, just like Prime95 is desigend to put maximum load on a gpu, it will produce lower fps then you will find in games but the power usage of the card will be higher then in any game you will play, maybe crysis and the futuremark test can come close to this.